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E. P. HAFF. Crochet Needle.

No. 229,402; Patented June 29, 1 880.

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ATTORNEYS.

N. PErars, PMOTO-UTHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, D O.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD P. HAFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CROCHET-NEEDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,402, dated June 29,1880.

Application filed April 12, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD P. HAFF, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Crochet-Needle, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved crochetneedle which is simple in construction and convenient in use.

The invention consists in a double crochetneedle formed of a tube, intoeach end of which a crochet-needle is inserted, which needles may befine or c'oarse, and may be replaced by others when desired, and may beinverted in the tube when not in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal cross-sectionalview of my improved crochet-needle, showing one of the nee- B and (3.The needles or their bases are provided with a shoulder, D, which restsagainst the ends of the tube and prevents the needles from being passedinto the tube farther than is necessary or desired.

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The needle B is to be made of ivory, bone, rubber, celluloid, wood, orany other suitable material, and is to be adapted for coarse work withcotton, worsted, and like material, whereas the needle 0 is to be ofmetal with a very fine point, for working with linen thread or silk.

The metal needle 0 is attached to abase, E, which is formed like therear end of a bone or ivory crochet-needle. If the needleC is not in useit is inverted in the tube A, its point passing into a central recess inthe rear end of the needle B.

The advantages of the within-described needle are that fine and coarseneedles are combined in a simple manner, thus permitting any kind ofwork to be made with my improved needle.

By inverting the metal needle 0 accidents, which happen so frequently incarrying finepointed metal needles, are entirely avoided.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent V The combination, with the tube A, of an ordinarybone or rubber crochet-needle, B, and of the metal needle 0, providedwith a base, E, substantially as herein shown and described, and for thepurpose set forth.

EDWD. P. HAFF.

Witnesses:

O. D. MUNN, J. H. SCARBOROUGH.

